LAST EDITED ON 09-15-11 AT 06:27 PM (EST)

LAST EDITED ON 09-15-11 AT 05:26 PM (EST)

Week 4

Corvis wins HOH.

Corvis noms Kris and Jbug and outs the trio of Michel, Corvis and me to the board. But behind the scenes, Corvis has told me that Michel was pressuring him to put me up and get me out. So Michel *came for me with his backstabbing knife* as I knew he would. Jbug also tries to get Corvis to put me up. I know I am vulnerable to being voted out.

Jbug wins the POV comp and takes herself off. Corvis has to do a renom.

He puts Michel up and Michel begins to sweat. It’s Michel vs. Kris. Michel promises me that he won’t nom me or vote me out in week 5 if I keep him safe in week 4, that it is the trio to the end, etc.

Meanwhile, the “trio” is supposed to be voting out Kris. Jbug sends me a PM asking me if I am voting out Kris. I know she is fishing for info for Michel.

The problem is, there are only two votes. If I vote Michel out and I know Jbug is voting Kris out, then Corvis breaks the tie. And Corvis is committed to staying with Michel. So if I vote to keep Kris without Corvis being in alignment, then I blow up any alliance I have with him.

So it is in his hands. I told him I would vote as he asked but pointed out Michel’s duplicity from early on with his trying to get me to lie about Dear Abby, and then with his trying to get Corvis to put me up.

Corvis does not budge and leaves town for the weekend.

Michel promises me that he won’t nom me or vote me out in week 5 if I keep him safe in week 4, that it is the trio to the end, etc. I am skeptical but I don’t really have an alternative.
So Jbug and I vote to evict Kris.

On to Week 5

So, dear readers, here we are.

Michel wins the HOH comp, one of random draws. Jbug, Michel and I all use the same strategy to approach the game and Michel gets the best random draw.

While he nommed Corvis and Jbug, I knew that Jbug was in an alliance with Michel. Someone was expendable and Michel did not say who it was.

Michel wins the POV and of course saves Jbug.

Michel puts me up and has told Corvis in a PM that he has a deal with Jbug for Jbug to vote me out.

Michel, I am not at all surprised. This is the squirrelly way you have played the entire game.

Unanswered questions for me are: is Corvis trustworthy or has he been part of a Michel/Jbug/Corvis alliance all along? Have I been strung along by him? (not that I had much choice, going back to week one). Or is it that Michel just does not want to compete with me? ;)

As for me, what I have learned from this game is a smidgen of how it must feel for the people in the BB house. Most of the players were strangers to me and in our game, we did not have the benefit of face to face interactions to be able to judge body language, tone, inflection, etc.

My intuition and life learning says when people show you who they are you should believe them.

Michel showed me who he was when he tried to get me to lie about Dear Abby. And again when he tried to get Corvis to nominate me so he and Jbug could boot me. That's why this week is no surprise. Except maybe to Corvis.

I learned that I don’t like how it makes me feel to be playing a game with someone who plays like that. It’s not how I am wired. This is a reminder of how things are in life for me. I don’t like people who pee on my leg and tell me it is raining.

The rest of the jury may see/feel otherwise. As for me, I’ll be weighing Jbug’s competition prowess versus Corvis’s play.
No sour grapes. Just the facts. And, as for Michel’s POV on the jury? He covered that in a PM, too:

*scroll down to see Part Five*
(I entered these in the wrong place!)